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We have been fully focussed on doing work in the house ourselves, hence the lack of recent updates.  I will post a full update shortly but, in summary: we have completed the fitted wardrobes in the bedrooms we have laid the engineered oak flooring on the top floors and both landings we have removed the […]

We have achieved several major steps forward in the past week: On Tuesday 13 December, Andy and Lewis from Total Home Environment commissioned the MVHR (HPV2) and the hot water (HPW300).  We could not have chosen a colder day with temperatures of -7 degrees overnight which made it hard work for the 2 air source […]

We are well into the second fix and making good progress. Graham of G T Electric Services is coming towards the completion of the tasks that he can do at the moment.  We have had a real struggle finding downlighters for the top floor where we only have 68mm clearance above the ceilings due to […]

Today marked a major milestone: Tim and Connor from Eco Energy Environment were able to connect up the 40 panel 12.8kW PV array on the roof to the inverter and meter so that we can now generate and export electricity.  Despite today being largely wet and overcast, we still generated 5.94kWh over the daylight hours […]

… and some more to bring us up to date:

A range of progress photos from August and September:

First, my apologies for not having posted any updates for a while; the gap was longer than intended but we have been busy doing quite a lot of work ourselves and time has vanished! Ian of Reading Office Interiors Ltd completed all of the dry-lining in August.  As a result of his diligence, we are […]

There has been a long gap since the last post as we have been heavily involved in working on the house ourselves leaving little time for keeping the blog up to date!  We have also managed to get away for 10 days and now catching up again.  This update covers a summary of progress over […]

There has been a lot of activity on site over the past 2 weeks but it has largely been “more of the same“. Graham of G T Electric Services Ltd  is still fully engaged on installing the cabling for the power, lights and same home installation.  I will update on the statistics in a later […]

Graham, of G T Electric Services has been hard at work for the past 2 weeks pulling cables for the power sockets, for the lighting circuits and for the data cabling.  There are literally kms of cabling being installed!  The top floor now looks like some form of cave with cables dangling everywhere and there […]